Cosmopolitan urbanism
By: edited by Jon Binnie ... [et al.].
Contributors: Binnie, Jon.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
Subjects: Sociology, Urban; Cosmopolitanism; City dwellers; Ethnic relations; Race relations; Urban geography; Pluralism (Social sciences); Spatial behavior; Cities and towns -- Case studies
Genres: Case studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Grounding cosmopolitan urbanism : approaches practices and policies / Jon Binnie, Julian Holloway, Steve Millington and Craig Young; title: Envisaging cosmopolitan urbanism, cosmopolitan urbanism : a love song to our mongrel cities / Leonie Sandercock; title: The paradox of cosmopolitan urbanism : rationality, difference and the circuits of cultural capital / Gary Bridge; title: Strangers in the cosmopolis / Kurt Iveson; title: Consuming the cosmopolitan city : materialities and practices sociality and the cosmopolitan imagination : national, cosmopolitan and local imaginaries in Auckland, New Zealand / Alan Latham; title: Cosmopolitanism by default : public sociability in Montréal / Annick Germain and Martha Radice; title: Cosmopolitan camouflage : (post-)gay in Spitalfields, East London / Gavin Brown; title: Negotiating cosmopolitanism in Singapore's fictional landscape / Serene Tan and Brenda S.A. Yeoh; title: Producing the cosmopolitan city : cultural policy and intervention multicultural urban space and the cosmopolitan 'other' : the contested revitalization of Amsterdam's Bijlmermeer / Annemarie Bodaar; title: Working class subjects in the cosmopolitan city / Chris Haylett; title: Planning Birmingham as a cosmopolitan city : recovering the depths of its diversity? / Wun Fung Chan; title: Cosmopolitan knowledge and the production and consumption of sexualized space : Manchester's gay village / Jon Binnie and Beverley Skeggs; title: Conclusion, the paradoxes of cosmopolitan urbanism / Jon Binnie, Julian Holloway, Steve Millington and Craig Young.